The winner will receive check for $1000.00 and a commemorative plaque which will be presented on Friday, May 26, 2017, during Balticon 51 Opening Ceremonies. Balticon is the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention.

The Compton Crook Award is presented by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first novel in the genre published during the previous year. The Award is named in memory of Towson State College Professor of Natural Sciences Compton Crook, who wrote under the name Stephen Tall, and who died in 1981. The award has been presented since 1983 and is also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award.

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After she reads a corpse pulled from the river, Detective and Death Witch Mallory Mors is visited by its waterlogged ghost. As the clues dry up, she’s attacked with magic even in her dreams. If she can’t close the case, she’ll never be safe again.

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Paul Witcover

Paul Witcover is the author of the novels Waking Beauty, Tumbling After, Dracula: Asylum, The Emperor of All Things, and The Watchman of Eternity, plus a collection, Everland. He has been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Jackson awards.

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